This Is the Face of an Undocumented Immigrant. Don’t Look Away.
Karla Cornejo Villavicencio’s new book combines memoir and reporting to tell the stories behind the headlines.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews
In a Time of Crisis, Her Voice Was the One That Galvanized Alaska
Genie Chance felt the earth move under her feet, and then she got to work. Jon Mooallem tells her story in “This Is Chance!”
Source: NY Times Book Reviews
Should More Defendants Be Claiming Insanity?
Susan Nordin Vinocour’s “Nobody’s Child” uses one case as a prism for examining the history and future of the insanity defense in American courtrooms.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews
Wresting Insight, and Poetry, From Pain
“Pain Studies,” by Lisa Olstein, and “Constellations,” by Sinead Gleeson, plumb the authors’ experiences with suffering to creative effect.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews
New York Is Alive (Literally) in N.K. Jemisin’s New Novel
“The City We Became” is a love letter to the city and its residents, but explicitly welcomes foreignness and plurality.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews
The Sometimes Amusing, Sometimes Appalling Life of a Lady in Waiting
In her new memoir, Anne Glenconner reflects on her nearly three decades of service to Princess Margaret.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews
New & Noteworthy Visual Books, From Los Angeles Graffiti to Korean Art
A selection of recent visual books of note; plus, a peek at what our colleagues around the newsroom are reading.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews
Set in a Notorious Prison, a Novel Probes Iran’s Torturers and Their Victims
“Then the Fish Swallowed Him,” the first novel in English by the Iranian-born Amir Ahmadi Arian, makes for unnerving reading.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews
‘The Glass Hotel,’ by Emily St. John Mandel: An Excerpt
An excerpt from “The Glass Hotel,” by Emily St. John Mandel
Source: NY Times Book Reviews
'American Poison' Aims To Show How Race Is At The Root Of U.S. Problems
Journalist Eduardo Porter has written a book that cuts to the root of racism, tracing it from slavery, Jim Crow, and segregation — and bringing it to today — with unblinking honesty and facts.
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Source: NPR Book Reviews
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